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Re: all estimate failed - problem
2005-10-14 11:27:42
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 at 4:38pm, Sylvia Gelman wrote
Is there a way how I could test the estimate time "dry" without making
really a backup?
Yep. sendsize*debug has the exact command it runs, which you could then
run by hand.
I´m a little bit confused with the arguments ...
as user amanda, I did the following:
mailserver% sendsize /opt/gnu/bin/tar --create --file /dev/null --directory
/var/mail --one-file-system --listed-incremental
/usr/local/amanda/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/mailserver_var_mail_5.new --sparse
--ignore-failed-read --totals --exclude-from
/tmp/amanda/sendsize._var_mail.20051013210554.exclude
il.20051013210554.exclude: Command not found
mailserver% sendsize /opt/gnu/bin/tar --create --file /dev/null --directory
/var/mail --one-file-system --listed-incremental
/usr/local/amanda/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/mailserver_var_mail_5.new --sparse
--ignore-failed-read --totals --exclude-from
/tmp/amanda/sendsize._var_mail.20051013210554.exclude .
il.20051013210554.exclude: Command not found
mailserver% sendsize /opt/gnu/bin/tar --create --file /dev/null --directory
/var/mail --one-file-system --listed-incremental
/usr/local/amanda/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/mailserver_var_mail_5.new --sparse
--ignore-failed-read --totals
the last line is now working, but is it correct? Anyway there is no entry in
the exclude file ...
Those files are created on the fly. You don't need to be running the
command through sendsize -- just do the tar command (which should need the
'.' at the end.
*********************************************************************************
sendsize[5579]: time 349.922: Total bytes written: -1386622976
And there's your problem. tar is returning a *negative* size for
/var/mail. You have to figure out why that's happening. Personally, I
have no idea. :)
I had a similar problem, but the last time it was a wrong tar version, for
that reason it didn´t succeeded on the whole server but now it is only one
DLE, that is really strange!
Any ideas
First off, what version of tar is this? I'd also have a look at
/var/mail. Anything odd -- sparse files, too many inodes in use, etc?
How big should it be? Do the estimate tar command in various parts of
/var/mail and see if any in particular return negative sizes.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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